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There’s this shop in Houston run by the Devil and the lovely Holly who danced with puppets at the Houston Renaissance fair, half naked, while the Devil and I discussed this chopper. Everything about Kent Weeks, the Devil, Holly, and their shop nestled in a residential district surrounded by tall chain link fences and snarling […]

    (Mitchell, SD) November 5, 2014 – The Helping with HorsepowerTM Bike Rebuild Program is helping the Abbott House Celebrate their 75th Anniversary! Forty young women from the ages of 9-17, all residents of the Abbott House in Mitchell, South Dakota, worked alongside volunteer facilitators – Klock Werks’ Laura Klock, Karlee Cobb, and Jennifer

    Letter from a Marine Veteran:    While I know some may read this and think I am being passive aggressive, I am not, I struggle to see, and understand why people do not understand things the way I do. Especially if they are non-military. It’s hard, it really is, and when I bring

  Editor’s Note from the Week Magazine, November 10, 2014: Mexico has finally released a former Marine who was jailed for eight months after crossing the Mexican border with loaded guns in his car. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, had recently moved to Southern California from Florida and said he took a wrong turn out of a

    Editor’s Note: Our author, Louise Ann Noeth (aka “Landspeed” Louise), is a long-time SAH member and a two-time SoCal Chapter Valentine Award winner. The following is a fresh version of her article summarizing racing at Bonneville in anticipation of its centennial, now from the perspective of actually having reached that centennial. The entire

    (Scottsdale, AZ) –November 11, 2014 – Scottsdale motorcycle racer, 7-time land speed record holder and team owner, Valerie Thompson, recently signed NPmotowear Products as a new sponsor for the 2015 racing season. NPmoto products was founded in 2005 by Nick Plenzick to provide motorcyclists and racers with a variety of apparel and accessories

  THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com.       NCOM

  When a man dies those who knew him often get to saying a lot of nice things—even if the guy was a complete asshole. I have no intentions of doing that here and will only talk about the man as I did when he was still alive. Until the end Dale dedicated his life

      The 2014 Cannonball Run is an endurance test of motorcycles built prior to 1937 that started at the Daytona Beach Resort in Daytona Beach Florida on September 5th. The riders started to assemble on the beach at 8:30 AM for a group photo.  They started the 3,938 mile ride to Tacoma Washington

Editor’s Note: We’ve worked with JIMS staff for maybe 30 years, maybe longer. Jim Thiessen has one of the most solid companies in the industry. When the custom world is on fire JIMS keeps rolling along. So, when we decided to create something completely nuts for Bonneville in a Belly Tank configuration I discussed it

    The WMDRA’s AMSOIL Sturgis Nationals brought some of the quickest and fastest drag bikes on the planet to a vintage 1/8 mile strip just out of Sturgis, South Dakota for the 74th Annual Sturgis Race and Rally, along with–oh–400,000 friends.         The WMDRA came to be a part of the

      Aliso Viejo, Calif. – September 12, 2014 – Landspeed racing team 5-Ball Racing’s “JETobey” Harden is the latest Bonneville racer to hit the salt in a Schuberth helmet at the 2014 Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trails. 5-Ball joins other landspeed racing competitors Valerie Thompson, Erin Hunter, Andy Sills, MOTUS Motorcycles and Robert Pandya

    THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com.      

  The people we aspired to be decades ago were much different than the celebrities young people looked up to today. The values of our past have nearly vanished, but I’m hoping that if everyone sees this, they might think differently about what “cool” was yesterday and what is considered “cool” today. . . really

      When the Petersen Museum announced that the first 150 motorcyclists who showed up got a free Sunday morning pancake breakfast plus two for one museum entrance tickets, people were setting their alarm clocks, this rider/writer included. In part it had to do with an exhibit of café racers on display, but any

    Nothing lasts forever and motorcycle batteries are no exception. The original equipment battery on my 2012 FLD Dyna Switchback had been dragging occasionally, after enduring a couple of summers and bad-ass winters in northern Virginia, plus another sweltering summer in the Conch Republic of south Florida. So I was pissed but not surprised

    (Mitchell,SD) September 23, 2014 – Most known for her land speed racing, the second generation of the Klock Werks family, Karlee Cobb, 21, just launched her first design effort at the Tony Hawk Foundation’s “Stand Up for SkateParks” event held in Beverly Hills, CA.  Perry Farrell, lead signer of Jane’s Addiction and founder

    I have a high school partner who sweeps in and out of my life, like every couple of years. I get a phone call; we hook up for 15 minutes, share a few stories, and then he disappears. This time he showed up at the Bikernet.com Headquarters with some shots of a chopped

    To read Part One please CLICK Here.    It had been over a month since I’d come to stay with the girl whose trailer resided at a park in the Los Angeles suburbs. Brent, owner of Black Jack Cycles located just down the street, had allowed me to rewire my 1988 FLHT, rebuild

In 1972 David Rash had a problem. He could not find the Exhaust Pipe he needed for his race bike. He knew that the proper exhaust for his engine configuration would give him an edge over his competition. However, no such pipe was available. So he did the only thing he could do. He fabricated

Lawless Harley-Davidson had their First Annual Freedom Rally and it was a huge success with riders coming in from surrounding states. The Lawless Freedom Rally was a 3-day weekend full of bikes, rides, stunt shows, the Lawless Saloon with live bands and of course the Miss Lawless Harley-Davidson contest all while paying tribute to the

I stumbled into a meeting with Scott Murley, Steve Yatzke, the boss, and Grady Pheiffer from GH Marketing, in Scott’s new office digs next to the BDL R&D department. We started discussing new products and Bikernet techs. The BDL family is exploding. BDL took on GMA brakes some time ago, but then they grabbed Jamar

    98 Competitors on 1936 and earlier motorcycles, 265 people total (support crew and staff) 3 days of prep (1300 miles)- 17 days cross country from Daytona, FL to Tacoma , WA and 2000 miles to get home. For the first time the Motorcycle Cannonball Run was very lucky to count amongst the support

These limited production motorcycles are designed at the Ronin Motor Works factory in Denver, Colorado. Each production Ronin features 11 cast aluminum parts that are hand-sanded and painted. Other components including the seat, carbon fiber air box cover and fenders, sheet metal parts, and wiring harness are all designed in-house and then sourced locally. The